- Happy New Year From the Freedom Movement’s Daily Newspaper!
Hey, everyone …
This is our final edition of 2025 … putting us a few editions into our 24th year as Rational Review News Digest (before that, Freedom News Daily; before that, starting in 1991, Libernet).
In THEORY, we’ll be back on January 5 (Americans tend to treat the Fridays after holidays that fall on Thursday as holidays themselves), but it’s likely that there will be at least a short New Year’s Day and/or weekend special edition between now and then.
Thanks for another great year, and here’s wishing you a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2026!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily - Russian official threatens Zelenskyy as Moscow claims Kyiv attacked Putin residence
Source: ABC News
“A top Russian official on Monday issued personal threats against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Russia claimed that Ukraine launched a drone attack on one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official residences. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov alleged that Ukraine launched a drone attack on Putin’s state residence in Novgorod region on the night of Dec. 29. Lavrov offered no evidence to support the assertion, which Zelenskyy was quick to dismiss as a Russian disinformation effort. Dmitry Medvedev — the former Russian president and prime minister now serving on the country’s Security Council — posted to X accusing Zelenskyy of ‘trying to derail the settlement of the conflict,’ referring to the ongoing U.S.-sponsored peace talks. ‘He wants war. Well, now at least he’ll have to stay in hiding for the rest of his worthless life,’ Medvedev wrote.” (12/30/25)
- The United States Should Butt Out of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland“Gradually reducing American aid to Ukraine and transferring the war funding to wealthy Europeans would have been a defensible policy. The Europeans, being geographically closer to both Russia and Ukraine, have always had much more at stake in terms of security in the conflict than has the United States. … Yet Trump went beyond that distancing policy, seemingly aiming to weirdly appease Putin by concocting a twenty-point peace plan that was embarrassingly favorable to Russia and then trying to put the screws to Ukrainian leader Zelensky to sign on board. … Putin thinks he is winning the war and will likely reject any peace settlement at this time; Trump should not be blinded to this reality, give up his weird affinity for Putin, and quit bullying Zelensky to make a disadvantageous and unsustainable peace agreement.” (12/30/25)
- The Fifth Column, episode 538
Source: The Fifth Column
“The Fifth Column.” (12/30/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/not-enough-booze-too-many-files-538